SpaceX has dreamed up a Dragon ship on steroids | Space Quiz! How fast do millisecond pulsars spin? | Russia unveils timeline for building its new space station
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SpaceX's new vehicle to bring down the International Space Station will be a monster. The SpaceX deorbit vehicle, a variant of its workhorse Dragon spacecraft, will carry 46 Draco thrusters to send the International Space Station (ISS) to its end in the south Pacific Ocean in the next decade, the company said in remarks last week. That's triple the usual 16 on board Cargo Dragon missions to the ISS.
Russia has unveiled a comprehensive roadmap for building its newest space station and associated Earth-based infrastructure, with the first modules expected to launch within three years.
Saturn is back. The sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system is at the top of most amateur astronomers' wish list. In July, it rises just before midnight and is high in the south before sunrise, but there are two nights this month when the famously "ringed planet" is visited by a waning gibbous moon.
ABL Space Systems will have to wait a while to conduct its second-ever orbital launch. The California-based startup has been prepping its RS1 rocket for a test flight, which will lift off from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska. But that vehicle is no longer in any condition to earn its wings.
Using a NASA X-ray telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have weighed a rapidly spinning dead star that signifies the heart of the closest millisecond pulsar to Earth.
The space agency's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project had undergone a comprehensive internal review. NASA found price tag sticker shock, delays to the launch date, and risk of future cost growth - reasons to "stand down" the lunar ice-hound mission.
"Wild Wild Space" is a newly released HBO documentary that tracks the progress of three venture-funded space companies over the course of several years, all of them operating in the very large shadow of Elon Musk's market-dominating SpaceX.
The 25-year evolution of the Federation's clandestine spy division known as Section 31 and its presentation within the "Star Trek" universe has taken a few twists and turns over the years. This covert operations unit has morphed from its introduction as an autonomous intelligence agency in the 1998 episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" titled "Inquisition," to being considered for it's own proposed TV series, and now to "Star Trek's" very first streaming film for Paramount+.
